Qwerty Finger

by Everything Everything

From the album: Man Alive

Duration: 3:51

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Lyrics for Qwerty Finger

We slide in from the epoch of Anglo-American wire And a Saxon spire Glint in the glare far above me Put pressure on it! She collapse me Man alive, her every ache a baton to me Age of ending Where's the worth in proving I was here? But maybe Qwerty can leave some little evidence while he lives They might be lying in rows, they can't believe that it's happening And Qwerty Finger replies, "I don't know how to sleep knowing this" I can't go down like the rest, oh, Qwerty take it away (if it's gonna happen to him) So, how will they remember us whole, when we turn into salt? And it's mine the fault Mine the dream and the vein, home of whale flesh Make soap out of it! I regret so Every wand I splinter in a fit of frenzy Distant memory She don't care for leaving anything behind But maybe Qwerty can leave some little evidence while he lives They might be lying in rows, they can't believe that it's happening And Qwerty Finger replies, "I don't know how to sleep knowing this" I can't go down like the rest, oh, Qwerty take it away (then it's gonna happen to him) I can't let you turn yourself off Off, hmm Your every ounce an element sleeping A part of you just never quite receiving I wanna be the one to get in Oh, yeah But the only way you tell me you're certain To draw asunder every leper curtain Would be a hail of every flower to ash Oh, yeah When every attosecond means nothing And all that you believe in isn't working I can't begin to tell you I know Oh, yeah In twenty thousand years they trawl the seaboard But all that's washing up there is a keyboard Yeah, they piece it all together from that Oh, yeah Come on, child What you say, what you do, yeah it's all over now Qwerty Finger no more, ye-eh-eh-eh Qwerty Finger no more, eh-eh-eh-eh I can't do what you ask me, eh-eh-eh Qwerty Finger no more, no more She collapse me Man alive, her every ache a baton to me Age of ending Where's the worth in proving I was here?

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